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O.C. SYDNEY, January 11. In the current issue of the "Australian Journal of Science," Professor Eric Ashby, Professor of Botany at Sydney University, reveals that the r'ederal Government refused to appoint a scientific attache to the Australian Ministry in Moscow. Professor Ashby stated that the Government was asked by Australian scientific workers to appoint the attache. The Government refused, because it considered that an Australian scientist in Russia would have little opportunity to obtain information wanted by Australian scientists. Professor Ashby said he begged to differ. The slenderest direct contact with Soviet science would be most valuable, he said. This was clearly shown by the pamphlet on science in the U.S.S.R. prepared by the Australian Association of Scientific Workers. 1 "Australia's food production programme alone would justify a study at first hand of Soviet agriculture and horticulture," he said. "Australia could also learn a great deal from the Soviet in methods of education of workers and organisation for scientific work."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1944, Page 6
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